The foo fighters pretender was directed by sam brown and was shot inside an aircraft hanger. The video is a live performance but has a narrative that hints at fighting the law or oppression. The video is shot in a letterbox style and focuses on Dave Grohl as the main character and the officer standing opposite him as his opposite. The video opens with the lights slowly turning on and Dave Grohl slowly going out and taking his position with the microphone. The camera shows him bandaging his hand before it shows his face with him singing into the microphone off camera while he is doing it. As he gets to the second verse the rest of the band come out behind him and start taking their places while we see Dave Grohl singing. The band then start playing together and the camera is using a lot of panning shots as well as quick cuts as we get deeper into the song. When the police officer walks up he comes up to the black line and stops. We then get quite a few shots showing the police officers face and Dave Grohl's which implies that they are rivals throughout most of the rest of the video. The video builds in intensity until more police arrive and they prepare to fight the band. The song continues to build in intensity until it drops to quiet and when the police cross the line and start charging the band. I believe this to be a metaphor for police brutality and them being harsh against people who seem aggressive rather than are aggressive. When the song picks up the screen behind the band breaks and unleashes red liquid which blasts away the police officers. The liquid could be a reference to blood and that the police are getting washed away in blood. The video ends with Dave Grohl hitting his guitar on the floor before falling to his knees. I believe that carol Vernallis's ideas link to the song as the lyrics and the video are related however i also believe that Andrew Goodwin's ideas also link with the song as the video amplifies the lyrics as Dave Grohl sings about fighting oppression while in the video its him facing off with futuristic police forces. The lyrics are amplified by these visuals as Goodwin states and it has a heroic theme to it which could be linked to voyeurism with Dave Grohl being such a prominent character in the video.
Royal Blood - Typhoons
The video for Royal Blood's typhoons directed by Quentin Deronzier and is a Live performance with a narrative similar to the pretender. The video starts with Mike Kerr calling over the microphone which echoes across london. We see people hear this and instantly start running to where they heard it come from. This sets the video in motion and the band start playing we get cuts between the band playing and people running. All of the people who are running are wearing black clothing which could relate to when the Mike kerr sings "all my thoughts are becoming parasites" as the people are symbolism for his thoughts. As we progress through the video a storm begins to form around them and after every verse of the song it gets bigger but so does the number of people running to the band. Mike kerr also sings "i could stop the storm if i wanted to." which is relating to symoblically to his thoughts but also physically as the more the band play the larger the storm grows. Eventually all of the people arrive to the band and start running around them the same direction the storm is growing. The metaphor is that he is becoming overnumbered by thoughts which are confusing him and creating a storm in his head. The video shows this literally with the people being the thoughts and the more he plays the larger the storm grows but also the more people that arrive. The video ends with Ben Thatcher throwing his drum sticks into the storm and the camera following them up into the clouds. This music video clearly is very narrative and the visuals tell a story as Goodwin states in his analysis. In this video it is a mix of live performance and narrative which also links to how Goodwin states that genres can mix.
MUSE - Thought Contagion
MUSE thought contagion directed by lance drake is completely narrative and although features the band only features them as cameos. The music video starts with a bite of one of the characters jumping up next to the other. The video has a heavy emphasis on rhythm with a lot of significant parts of the video happening in time to the music. The video starts with the characters moving through a town that is having some sort of infection. when the two arrive at a car they put in a tape and start listening to music. The boy starts dancing with the girl watching, the camera is focused on the dancing of the boy and when it pans back to the girl she is gone. The boy is confused and the girl jumps up behind the boy and bites him as the song says "you've been bitten by a true believer." The use of rhythm really amplifies the music as key actions happen with the music in sync, for example later in the video there is a dancing section to the chorus of the song. The entire album has a neon style to it or a retro style to it, this makes the video have an interesting style and the album tells a story throughout the album. This video is entirely narrative and fits with carol vernallis's description of what the music video should be like.
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